New Hampshire Democratic Party

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New Hampshire Democratic Party
Chairman	Raymond Buckley
Senate leader	Sylvia Larsen
House leader	Terie Norelli
Headquarters	Concord, New Hampshire
Ideology	American Liberalism Progressivism Center-left
National affiliation	Democratic Party
Official colors	Blue
Website
http://www.nhdp.org/
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The New Hampshire Democratic Party is the local branch of the United States Democratic Party in the state of New Hampshire. The chair is Raymond Buckley. The vice chairs are Martha Fuller Clark and Jane Clemmons.

Current elected officials

The New Hampshire Democratic Party holds the governor's office and one of the state's U.S. Senate seats.

Member of Congress

U.S. Senate

• Jeanne Shaheen

Statewide office

• Governor: John Lynch

Legislative

• Senate Minority Leader: Sylvia Larsen
• House Minority Leader: Terie Norelli

New Hampshire Democratic Party Platform 2010

The party platform is a pledge of support for building a strong New Hampshire. It consists of four major points of interests. Each point of interest is followed by key areas In which the party promises to work on.

A strong economy

The goal of building a strong economy is to diversify business, invest in green jobs, and development of northern rural New Hampshire

New Hampshire primary

New Hampshire started holding a primary in 1916 and has held the First in the Nation primary since 1920. At first voters could only vote on delegates to send the party national conventions. It was Richard F. Upton, speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, who amended the law to allow for direct vote of presidential candidates. In 1952 New Hampshire voters started voting for the candidates.

New Hampshire Democratic Party presidential primary winners

• 2008:Hillary Clinton
• 2004:John Kerry
• 2000:Al Gore
• 1996:Bill Clinton
• 1992:Paul Tsongas
• 1988:Michael Dukakis
• 1984:Gary Hart
• 1980:Jimmy Carter
• 1976:Jimmy Carter
• 1972:Edmund Muskie
• 1968:Lyndon B. Johnson
• 1964:Lyndon B. Johnson
• 1960:John F. Kennedy
• 1956:Estes Kefauver
• 1952:Estes Kefauver

Past elected officials

Governor

• William Badger
• John Page (New Hampshire)
• Henry Hubbard
• John Hardy Steele
• Jared Warner Williams
• Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr.
• Noah Martin
• Nathaniel Bradley Baker
• James Adams Weston
• Samuel Demeritt Felker
• Fred Herbert Brown
• John W. King
• Hugh J. Gallen
• Robert B. Monier
• WIlliam Michael Gardner

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U.S. Senate

• Fred Herbert Brown
• Joseph Cilley
• John A. Durkin
• Henry French Hollis
• Thomas James McIntyre
• Moses Norris, Jr.
• Leonard Wilcox
• Levi Woodbury

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U.S. House

Samuel Newell Bell Edmund Burke Robert Burns (representative) Samuel Cushman Norman D'Amours Warren F. Daniell Ira Allen Eastman James Farrington Ellery Albee Hibbard Harry Hibbard Joseph Oliva Huot James Hutchins Johnson Frank Jones (politician) George W. Kittredge Daniel Marcy

Luther Franklin McKinney George W. Morrison Mace Moulton Hosea Washington Parker Charles Hazen Peaslee Franklin Pierce John Randall Reding Eugene Elliott Reed William Nathaniel Rogers Alphonse Roy Tristram Shaw Raymond Bartlett Stevens Richard Swett Joseph Weeks Jared Warner Williams

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References

1. ^ The Encyclopedia of the Democratic Party: Volume Three, Edited by George Thomas Kurian
2. ^ The Encyclopedia of the Democratic Party: Volume Three, Edited by George Thomas Kurian
3. ^ The Encyclopedia of the Democratic Party: Volume Three, Edited by George Thomas Kurian

External links

• New Hampshire Democratic Party